kumpujen

Kumpujen is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun kumpu, which designates a hill, mound, or knoll. In Finnish grammar, the genitive plural marks possession or association, so kumpujen translates loosely as “of the hills” or “the hills’.” The form is commonly found in descriptive language about landscapes and in toponymy.

In practice, kumpujen appears in phrases such as “kumpujen varjoissa” (in the shadows of the hills), “kumpujen rinteillä” (on the slopes of the hills), and “kumpujen laaksot” (the valleys of the hills). It is also used in place names and in texts describing terrain or geography, where it helps specify spatial relations to natural elevations.

Because kumpujen is an inflected form rather than a standalone noun, its meaning relies on the surrounding noun. The base word kumpu denotes a natural elevation, and kumpujen simply indicates that elevation’s relation to something else, such as location or ownership, in a sentence.

Related topics include Finnish language, genitive case, and toponymy.